What To Do When Everyone Hates Your Girlfriend

"By Dani" It's not easy to accept your friends and family disliking your girlfriend. If everything is going swimmingly with her, you shouldn't care, right? You know her better than everyone else and your opinion is the only one that matters, right? Maybe not. Ask yourself a few questions before proceeding with a relationship that might have been doomed from the beginning. First of all, have your friends and family ever acted like this before? If they have a history of disliking your girlfriends, maybe you aren't surprised at their reaction. It's time to get details. FAMILIES AND FRIENDS HAVE A UNIQUE INSIGHT INTO YOUR RELATIONSHIP. They see what you might be too blinded by love to see. I listened to a good friend of mine tell me about the way her boyfriend talked to her - which was disrespectful. She excused his behavior. I hated him immediately. He was cocky and arrogant, and I told her so. She got angry at me. He left her for another woman a few years later, after she had given the better part of 5 years of her life to him. My friends and I all saw it coming from a mile away. What's the lesson here? Sometimes your friends know you better than you give them credit for. Friends know that you deserve to be treated with respect, even if you don't know it yourself. Are there any other reasons that your loved ones might be trying to kibosh your romance? Some reasons are worth ignoring. If your brother is jealous because your girlfriend is hotter than his he might tell you that he doesn't like her. If your girlfriend is shy and doesn't fit in well with your outgoing and rambunctious friends, that doesn't mean that she isn't right for you. Your girlfriend is "your" partner - not a companion for your friends. If they all get along that is just a bonus. Case in point: my husband used to go out 3 nights per week and drink until the wee hours of the morning. When I came into the picture, I put an end to this expensive habit and instead we spent many sober nights taking in movies, seeing live comedy and going for moonlit walks. His friends resented me and I am quite certain that some of them still do. However, my husband says that I was exactly what he needed to pull him out of his miserable funk. He was depressed and turning to alcohol to cope. Of course, all that his friends saw was me pulling their buddy away from them (sigh). The point is that only you can decide if your friends and family have legitimate reasons to question how genuine your relationship is. IF YOU HAVE A GUT FEELING THAT SOMETHING IS JUST NOT RIGHT, THE OPINIONS FROM YOUR FRIENDS MIGHT SERVE TO CONFIRM YOUR SUSPICIONS. If, on the other hand, you feel that the woman you are with is truly the right one for you, tell your friends how you feel and ask them to keep their opinions to themselves. If they are real friends, they will make that extra effort to get to know your girlfriend and possibly even begin to see what you see in her. What to Do When Everyone Hates Your Girlfriend is a post from: Dating Beautiful Women